![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article2.74d541386bbf.png) ## Metadata - Author: - Full Title: The Novelist of Human Unknowability - Category: #articles - URL: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/the-novelist-of-human-unknowability ## Highlights - Green’s definition of the ideal prose contract: “a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known.